• Year of Study: Year 1
• FHEQ Level: Level 7
• Credit Weighting: 20 credits
• Module Status: Compulsory
• Module Leaders: Nicola Godwin

Module Aims

• To provide a historical, developmental and cumulative introduction to psychoanalytic perspectives on the organisation, together with historical papers on the origins of systems thinking about organisations.
• To provide an overview of research methods, through the academic and professional skills seminars, and explore strategies of academic writing and presentation, as well as ethical issues in working with and within organisations.

Module Assessment
Students are required to submit a 3000-word essay.

• Year of Study: Year 1
• FHEQ Level: Level 7
• Credit Weighting: 20 credits
• Module Status: Compulsory
• Module Leaders: Alison Wragg

Module Aims

• To offer an introduction to applying psychoanalytic and systemic thinking to organisations.
• To provide students with a range of conceptual tools with which to study the leadership and management of organisations.
• To explore key ideas from systemic thinking, group relations and psychoanalysis.
• To develop the capacity to think critically and systematically about an organisation, to formulate working hypotheses, and to design appropriate interventions.
• To encourage students to think creatively ‘across the boundary’ between the conscious and unconscious aspects of organisational life.
• To provide the opportunity for students – whether in leadership roles or in the role of consultants – to study and develop the necessary practical skills involved in taking up a ‘consultative stance’.
• To develop the ability to listen to others, whether clients, employees, or other organisational members to elicit and assess the meaning of communications in their various forms, to recognise conscious and unconscious processes and dynamics, to formulate and test hypotheses about what is going on, to communicate these appropriately and to enable oneself and others to understand more about their own organisational processes.
• To enable students to differentiate between a consultative stance and inappropriate psychotherapeutic engagement.
• To learn about the boundaries and limits of the approach.

Module Assessment
Students will be assessed on their participation in seminars and a 2000-word applications essay.

• Year of Study: Year 1
• FHEQ Level: Level 7
• Credit Weighting: 20 credits
• Module Status: Compulsory
• Module Leaders: Phillip Birch

Module Aims

• To develop the capacity to learn from, and make use of, one’s own individual experiences towards understanding the dynamics of a group.
• To enable students to study and learn at first-hand about the processes that influence individuals and groups when they work together.
• To develop the ability to observe (in person) a group while engaged in its usual activities, making meaning from the dynamics observed and also from the emotional experience of the observer.
• To allow students to take up the role of observer without having to ‘consult’ to an organisation, observing in the widest sense rather than researching by studying existing documentation or asking questions of those observed.

Module Assessment
Students are required to submit a 3000-word essay.

• Year of Study: Year 1
• FHEQ Level: N/A
• Credit Weighting: 0 credits
• Module Status: Compulsory
• Module Leaders: Gwen Hanrahan

Module Aims

• To provide an immersive experience of group and institutional processes, allowing the student to develop further the learning about leadership and followership provided through the first year of the course.

Module Assessment
The module is not assessed. However, attendance at the conference is compulsory and students are required to attend in order to pass the module.

• Year of Study: Year 2
• FHEQ Level: Level 7
• Credit Weighting: 20 credits
• Module Status: Compulsory
• Module Leaders: Nicola Godwin

Module Aims

• This module continues to provide a historical, developmental and cumulative introduction to psychoanalytic and systemic perspectives on consulting and leading in organisations and introduces contemporary applications.
• A number of leaders and consultants present their work using concepts taught on the course. Professional skills such as design of organisational interventions are developed.

Module Assessment
Students are required to submit a 3000-word essay.

• Year of Study: Year 2
• FHEQ Level: Level 7
• Credit Weighting: 20 credits
• Module Status: Compulsory
• Module Leaders: Alison Wragg

Module Aims

• To develop and use consultative skills through negotiating and completing a consultation. The consultation is conducted in person and outside of scheduled teaching time.

Module Assessment
Students are assessed on their participation in seminars, and through a 2000-word essay.

• Year of Study: Year 2
• FHEQ Level: Level 7
• Credit Weighting: 20 credits
• Module Status: Compulsory
• Module Leaders: Phillip Birch

Module Aims

• To explore the conscious and unconscious processes of the group in the context of students’ experience of the course.

Module Assessment
Students are required to submit a 3000-word essay.

• Year of Study: Year 2
• FHEQ Level: Level 7
• Credit Weighting: 60 credits
• Module Status: Compulsory
• Module Leaders: Gwen Hanrahan

Module Aims

• To provide an opportunity for students to integrate the learning from the theoretical and applied activities in the course, as well as demonstrating the student’s own theoretical understanding from other sources, and capacity to appropriately utilise experiential learning as data – linking it to relevant psychoanalytic, systemic and other theory.
• To address questions of research methodology and support students to extend their exploration of ideas relevant to a systems psychodynamics approach.
• To develop multiple hypotheses arising out of the learning from the consultation undertaken in the earlier part of the course.
• To facilitate conducting literature searches and writing literature reviews.
• To support the writing of a well-structured dissertation.
• To foster the capacity for independent learning.

Module Assessment
Students are required to complete a 14000-word dissertation based on the action research consultancy project completed in Year 2 of the programme.